Just bought an SF50 and I use an Android phone. Does anyone have a spreadsheet they’ve created to calculate w&b? Thanks!
Sorry no. I use the electronic one provided in FF.
Absolutely positively use the VisionProFlite app.
Nothing is easier or better.
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Is the app available for android? I was under the impression it was iOS only.
This is true. (macOS too)
Don’t let Dave Freeman see this thread… telling someone they need an Apple device? But that is true for FF and VisionProFlite.
(PS if you buy a SF50, Dave, you need an iPhone!)
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Btw, Mike, which SF50 did you pick up? G1? G2? G2+? What year? You already do the type school?
My bad, I missed the OP was an Android.
They live among us…
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Hey Jason!
I bought a 2023 G2+. A mentor pilot is meeting at my airport and we are flying to Knoxville this Sunday. My my type rating classes begin Monday morning. I tried to reduce the 10 days to 7 to get into the pro pilot course, but I’m not 135, so I’m in it for the long run. Another mentor pilot is meeting me on the 10th to do the required 25 hours.
Mike
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LOL, yip, I’m one of THOSE guys!
Great! Such a fun plane to fly and own, congrats!
Enjoy, the class is great and the instructors are top notch. Probably best you kept the 10 days, it’s drinking from a firehose (at least it was for me.) Great timing on the SOE, jump right immediately following type class.
Join us in the member section. Lot’s of discussions in the SF50 sub-forum! Plus a lot of great folks around here. The Apple and Android folks even meet up in person and have $100 hamburgers together!
Couldn’t you tell from the Green text??
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Thanks for the invite, Jason! My last 6 years have been spent in a TBM 940, so 6 years of turbine on a G3000 platform. That’s why I was hoping for some leniency on my training time, LOL.
Jason - Oh and by the way, where’d you find the CHEAP hamburgers? lol
I was about to joke about bad color vision but didn’t want to attract the Feds…
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I use foreflight. It does the perf calculations as well (but need to upgrade to a higher tier).
I was an Android guy until I bought my SF50. I switched to an iPhone just to get ForeFlight, and Vision ProFlight. I then bought an iPad, which I prefer to the Android tablets. There are things I miss about Android, but I found those two apps to be worth the transition to an iPhone.
If I didn’t want to make the switch, I’d look at Garmin Pilot, which has come a long way. I’m not that familiar with GP, but in FF, I set up a distinct seating profile for each way I configured the seating. I had the cargo profile (no seats except pilot/copilot), 4 seats plus the center console, and all 7 seats. This made it easy to simply click the configuration I was using, and add the weight at each station. I presume you can do something similar in Garmin pilot.
I have an android phone, an iPad, and a Windows laptop.
It’s fun. I’m also flying with Dave on Thursday and if he has an iPad I’ll threaten him with pics of him using it unless he buys me pie.
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Hey Mark!
Right now I can’t do anything with the tablet and the sf50. I’m hoping that someone at Knoxville can help me next week when I start school there. GP has been really good for me. I used to have the iPad and got pretty frustrated with it. Every time it sat in the sun too long it shut off in the plane at the exact moment that I needed it. The iOS platform is bad with heat. I gave the iPad away and stuck with GP.
I was a coder in my past life. I just need the right parameters and I can probably set up something on the tablet In a spreadsheet.
Mike